Judge on Pennsylvania Voter ID: “Sounds like a good idea. So, ..no”.

Updated at 11:10 a.m., 10/2/12 — A Pennsylvania judge has blocked enforcement of the key section of a voter identification law which the state legislature enacted and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed last March, meaning that the law willnot be in effect for the Nov. 6 election.

Judge Robert Simpson said that even with the streamlined procedures that state officials proposed to make it easier for voters without ID cards to obtain them, “the proposed changes are to occur about five weeks before the general election, and I question whether sufficient time now remains to attain the goal of liberal access” to ID cards.

He said, “I expected more photo IDs to have been issued by this time. For this reason, I accept Petitioners’ argument that in the remaining five weeks before the general election, the gap between the photo IDs issued and the estimated need will not be closed.”

Notice that the judge doesn’t bother to specify what amount of IDs would have qualified as “more”. Thanks so much, Justice Nebulous….

However, it wasn’t a total loss:

Simpson also said that those challenging the law have conceded that the part of the law which requires proof of identification for absentee voting does not harm would-be voters and may be implemented.

Okay, that’s something, especially since early voting tends to favor the Democrats.

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Rather than go off on my typical rant, I’m just going to offer a refresher course in why Voter ID makes total, absolute sense and those folks throwing a fit over it are clearly either (A) up to no good or (B) semi-sentient.

This post ran back during the summer, and was from our Guest Noggin, ‘LivinRightInPGH’. I’m just including the essential parts, but you’re certainly welcome to go back and read the entire thing.

I’m intrigued and more than a little concerned by the whole issue that surrounds the integrity of voting in these great United States. Moreover, I’m perplexed as to why the US Department Of Justice, led by Eric Holder, is doing everything in its power to block any measure that would enforce Voter ID laws. I’d liketo say that I don’t understand why they’d do such a thing, but sadly…I do.

If you can’t win on the issues, and if you can’t win fairly at the ballot box, you’re going to need a whole bunch of dead folks, non-citizens, et al, to swing the election your way.

“Georgia, which has had voter ID since 2007, allows six different forms of ID to vote. And there has been no stampede of would-be voters who lack identification: ‘The number of photo IDs issued by Georgia to individuals who did not already have one of the forms of ID acceptable under state law is remarkably small, averaging less (than) 0.05% in most years, and not even reaching 3/10ths of 1% in a presidential election year.’”

You may be interested to know, however, that in Georgia, Hispanic voting increased over 140% from 2004 to 2008, while African-American voting increased by 42% over the same time frame.

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Second, this is R-I-diculous! Seriously, if you listen to the MSM, this election is OVER anyway, and the Big Zero is the hands down winner. Unless what they’re saying is: He’s the hands down winner as long as we can cheat at the polls. Which, based on the rulings from certain liberal hack judges, seems to be the case.

Message to Liberals: PLEASE…..Quit hiding behind the false argument of discrimination to poor folks. Those poor folks are most likely on some sort of government assistance and (at least in Pennsylvania) MUST have state-issued photo id to get their benefits. So, again, PLEASE, stop the phony arguments and at least have the testicular fortitude to state your REAL reason for being against voter ID laws: YOU CAN’T WIN WITHOUT CHEATING.